Lentipecten

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AdamussiiniPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 44 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
80 occurrences of Lentipecten on record, most of them in the Oligocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
80 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
28 formations
- Ihungia Formation9
- Otekaike Limestone Formation · Otiake Group8
- Naseby Greensand Formation · Stranraer Group7
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group6
- Waihao Formation4
- Rifle Butts Formation · Kaierero Group4
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The named rock units Lentipecten has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lentipecten and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Lentipecten and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
1,030 taxa- Corbula7 sites
- Ispharina sulcifera6 sites
- Venericardia6 sites
- Crassatella5 sites
- Cucullaea5 sites
- Nemocardium5 sites
- Polinices5 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata4 sites
- Cantharus4 sites
- Clavilithes4 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica4 sites
- Gari4 sites
- Odostomia4 sites
- Ostrea4 sites
- Pitar (Calpitaria) sulcatarius4 sites
- Rimella fissurella4 sites
- Sigmesalia fasciata4 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) plagiaulax4 sites
- Varicorbula gibba4 sites
- Xenophora4 sites
- Acteon3 sites
- Ampullina3 sites
- Architectonica3 sites
- Austrotoma3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Lentipecten, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
32 references- The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision13
- The Geology of the Geraldine Subdivision11
- The Geology of the Naseby Subdivision, Central Otago7
- The Geology of the Dannevirke Subdivision6
- The Selsey Division (Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, (Hants)5
- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)4
- The molluscan fauna of the late Oligocene Branden Clay, Denmark3
- Stratigraphy, paleontology, and tectonics of Lower Miocene rocks in the Waipatiki/Mangatuna area, southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand3
- Karagyuleva, 19643
- Molluscan palaeoecology and sedimentological features: an integrated appraoch from the Miocene Meduna section, northern Italy2
- The geology of Tongarairo Subdivision2
- The Early Eocene London Clay Formation mollusc fauna of the former Bursledon Brickworks, Lower Swanwick, Hampshire1
Each of the 80 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 20 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Lentipecten
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lentipecten was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAdamussiini through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marwick 1928)